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September Issue 2003
Transylvania County Arts Council in Brevard, NC, Features Exhibition by Pen Women
The Western North Carolina Branch of the National League of American Pen Women continues its biennial all-media art exhibit entitled, Potpourri of Artists, which is on view at the Transylvania Community Arts Center in Brevard, NC, through Oct. 14, 2003.
Pen Women is a prestigious national organization of professional women who are artists, writers and composers. It was founded in 1897 by the niece of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, as an alternative to the all-male Press Club.
Famous Pen Women, regular or honorary, include Georgia O'Keeffe, Helen Keller, Erma Bombeck, Eudora Welty, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosalyn Carter, Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush.
The only sculptor to immortalize Abraham Lincoln while he was still alive was Vinnie Ream, a Pen Woman. Completed when she was 16, Ream's The Pensive Lincoln stands in the Capitol Rotunda today.
The Western North Carolina branch has 16 members from Henderson and Transylvania Counties. Artist Bob Martin of Greenville, SC, will judge the exhibit.
For
further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings
or contact the Arts Council at 828/884-2787 and at (www.tcarts.org).
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